The ignorant victim

Mr John Ikegbu a security officer
with one of the commercial banks has just lost his job.

Not news right? besides people
lose their jobs every day so what’s the big deal?

Anyways, the circumstances
surrounding his sack is one which you must know and learn from.

Mr John being a
security guard was in the bank compound directing cars appropriately and at intervals,
assists customers trying to make use of the ATM. Suddenly, two men walked up to
him acting to be in a hast and pleaded for his account number which they said
they needed for an urgent transfer so as to make withdrawal. According to Mr
John, he said they told him that they had exceeded their ATM withdrawal limit
for the day and urgently need cash to pay the hospital bill of their dying
sister.

The story made sense to him and
he did not see any risk in it. He thought to himself that he was at no risk of
losing anything if gets the money credited to his account. So, he immediately obliged
and the deal was done. They even tipped him with ₦5,000.00 and zoomed off. Trouble
however began for the ignorant poor man when the bank he works for invited him
the next day to explain a transaction that had occurred in his account the
previous day. Mr John narrated just as it happened but wasn’t enough
justification as to why he shouldn’t be let off his job. Well, I might say that
the narration was justification enough to save him further trouble with the
case.

Those two men were fraudsters who
had duped some people of over ₦50,000,000.00 and were trying to get the monies
out as quickly as possible. Investigations on the case revealed that they
succeeded in getting out ₦10,000,000.00 that very day via this same means and
are currently on the run.

Dear reader, just like we have always
advised, learn to keep your bank information secret. Beware of such people in
any ATM center and try as much as possible to protect your information at all
times. Hopefully, Mr John has learnt a bitter lesson and we pray grant him
grace to get another job.